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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Chris R on June 16, 2006, 10:39:49 pm

Title: Fuel Efficient Woodbridge T/M
Post by: Chris R on June 16, 2006, 10:39:49 pm
I have been very pleased with the amount of fuel that my new woodbridge pro mount 20 truck mount uses.

Today I was cleaning some corridors in an office block. I filled my fuel tank up before I started, and then topped it up after.

I had used £4.00 of fuel.   ;D

The machine had been running for 1.5hrs.

So that’s £2.66 per hour !

So far, so good,  8)
Cheers
Chris
Title: Re: Fuel Efficient Woodbridge T/M
Post by: Liahona on June 16, 2006, 10:50:23 pm
Chris I would say that was pretty good. Better than mine. A lot of it I would imagine is the load you put

 on the machine and its size. What rpm does it run at and what size is the engine. But again under 3

quid an hour is very good. Best, Dave.
Title: Re: Fuel Efficient Woodbridge T/M
Post by: carpetclean on June 17, 2006, 07:08:36 am
hi dave  i have the 20 panther and mine is similar fuel consumption [slightly higher] even on full power
Title: Re: Fuel Efficient Woodbridge T/M
Post by: Liahona on June 17, 2006, 11:25:24 am
Is the panther called the 20 because of its horse power? If it is then yours is using even more fuel than

 mine is. Mine costs a gallon per 75 minutes of use. Chris, again, what is the horse power on yours and

to you both at what rpm does the machines run at? Not that any of this really matters but it is good to

know. Cheers, best, Dave.
Title: Re: Fuel Efficient Woodbridge T/M
Post by: carpetclean on June 17, 2006, 12:46:24 pm
will let you know all the details later have anotherjob this afternoon and will check it all out
Title: Re: Fuel Efficient Woodbridge T/M
Post by: Liahona on June 18, 2006, 08:57:36 am
Pete, I e-mailed you back. Best, Dave.
Title: Re: Fuel Efficient Woodbridge T/M
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on June 18, 2006, 09:28:05 am
I have a Hydramaster Boxxer 421 it's 2.5 years old and although I don't use it on full throttle (there's no need) I use approx £8.50 a day which is approx 5 hours cleaning, which equates to £1.70 an hour.

Just as a matter of interest I wonder what John Kelly's machine runs at ? I can imagine his prowler TM being very economical, over to Restormate.

Shaun
Title: Re: Fuel Efficient Woodbridge T/M
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on June 18, 2006, 09:34:12 am
I have a Hydramaster Boxxer 421 it's 2.5 years old and although I don't use it on full throttle (there's no need) I use approx £8.50 a day which is approx 5 hours cleaning, which equates to £1.70 an hour.

Just as a matter of interest I wonder what John Kelly's machine runs at ? I can imagine his prowler TM being very economical, over to Restormate.

Shaun
Title: Re: Fuel Efficient Woodbridge T/M
Post by: Mike Halliday on June 18, 2006, 10:38:19 am
my pressure washer has the same enginre as the prowler, it runs on full throttle for 2.5 hrs on 5lts of fuel. in which I'll make £190ish  :) :)

Mike
Title: Re: Fuel Efficient Woodbridge T/M
Post by: John Kelly on June 18, 2006, 11:33:50 am
On a recent flood cleanup the Prowler was running flat out for 9 hours per day over 4 days. It used 12 litres of fuel per day. Also need to take into account a couple of refreshment breaks. So it was probably in use for 8 hours.